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 *cendiaries must act from bad motives.—"I remember," he said, "reading in the history of England, that there was a gun-*powder plot contrived, in order to blow up the Parliament house, and that the chief instrument was one Guy Faux;" he with much gravity observed, "I cannot think that this same Guy Faux was a well wisher to the Parliament." The young lady smiled at this observation in such a way as demonstrated her thoroughly to comprehend the character, or at least, intellectual reach of Dr. Truism. The travellers now returned to the coach, and sleep soon put an end to the conversation. Our hero had been some-*what amused by the pompous emptiness of Dr. Truism, but his mind was really engaged by a very different object. The charms of the young lady engrossed his thoughts and feelings, and did not suffer Morpheus to possess his usual influence.